[42] Recent botanical research makes this statement more than dubitable. Nevertheless, on no other supposition can the forms and action of tree-branches, so far as at present known to me, be yet clearly accounted for.
[43] Not always in muscular power; but the framework on which strong muscles are to act, as that of an insect's wing, or its jaw, is never insectile.
[44] It is one of the three cadences, (the others being of the words rhyming to 'mind' and 'way,') used by Sir Philip Sidney in his marvellous paraphrase of the 55th Psalm.
[45] Lectures on the Families of Speech, by the Rev. F. Farrer Longman, 1870. Page 81.
[46] I only profess, you will please to observe, to ask questions in Proserpina. Never to answer any. But of course this chapter is to introduce some further inquiry in another place.
[47] See Introduction, pp. 5-8.
[48] See Sowerby's nomenclature of the flower, vol. ix., plate 1703.
[49] Linnæus used this term for the oleanders; but evidently with less accuracy than usual.
[50] "ἄνθη πορφυροειδῆ" says Dioscorides, of the race generally,—but "ἄνθη δὲ ὑποπόρφυρα" of this particular one.
[51] I offer a sample of two dozen for good papas and mammas to begin with:—